AN OVERVIEW of FEET CO-OP CLASSES

2023 - 2024

FEET offers homeschool co-op classes for preschool through 9th grade,
as well as a staffed nursery for infants and toddlers.

Littles

 Nursery

Instructor: Kimberly Edwards
Class Length: 3 hours / 15 meetings
Description: A perfect blend structured activities and lots of free play. Nursery caps at 8 children.

Each child will receive a storage bin to hold the necessities (i.e., bottles, diapers, wipes) as well as a few favorites (like blankets, stuffies, and pacifiers). Parents are responsible for diaper changes as needed.

Class size is limited to 8 children.

 Pre-K 3/4 & 4/5

Instructors: Kayleigh Wuollet & Sondra Hinnenkamp
Class Length: 3 hours / 15 meetings
Description: Kids need to know that a big God loves them so, so much. To that end, these classes are a resource for parents and a welcoming place for children that nurture the spiritual, social, cognitive, and physical development of preschoolers.

Preschool-aged children learn exceptionally well through play, but also benefit greatly from structure. Each day in class there will be a regular routine that includes plenty of free play, physical play, and cooperative play, as well as group listening time, art, music, science, and a Bible lesson.

Class sizes are limited to 8 students.

 Kindergarten

Instructor: Wendy Walker
Class Length: 3 hours / 15 meetings
Description: Using the Five in a Row curriculum, each week Kindergarteners will read a quality children’s story that will serve as the launching point for a variety of geography, social studies, art, and science lessons. Parents will receive a letter each week outlining the lessons and activities.

Class size is limited to 10 students.

Elementary Class Schedule

Grades

9 - 10am

10 - 11am

11am - 12pm

1st & 2nd

Art

Science

PE

3rd & 4th

Science

PE

Art

5th & 6th

PE

Art

Science

Elementary Class Descriptions

Elementary classes are limited to 22 students each.

 Science: Botany

Instructor: Julie Von Vett
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: All of creation reveals a message from and about its Creator. God spoke to Job and said, “Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God”. We need to do the same—stand still and observe His creation. Today we tend to see many things but do not observe. By taking the time to observe nature our students will be trained to observe and see that nature is designed. This year we will develop our observation skills by examining plants.

Recommended but not required: Exploring Creation with Botany by Jeannie Fulbright. Classes can stand alone without the book. Other ways to enhance the study of Botany: Sower Series books on Johnny Appleseed and George Washington Carver, View Magic School Bus on “Photosynthesis” and “Goes to Seed”.

6-year Science cycle: Botany, Geology, Weather/Astronomy, Animals, Flying Creatures, and Human Body

 Art

Instructor: Lindsy Paurus
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: Students will learn about art history and different techniques used over the years through the “Meet the Masters” art curriculum.  Students will learn about line value and crosshatching, color value and shading, positive and negative shapes, texturing and more. Each student will get a chance to create their own artwork using the different techniques of each of the artists we study using a variety of mediums. During our first class, in addition to an introduction to the course, each person will be creating a portfolio to hold their artwork for the year.

 TBD

Instructor:
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: TBD

Middle School Class Schedule

9 - 10am

10 - 11am

11am - 12pm

OT/NT Survey

Public Speaking

Science

Social Studies

Writing

Literature

Middle School Class Descriptions

 Old & New Testament Survey

Instructor: Pastor Kevin Sorenson
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: Nothing can be more important than knowing God through His Word. But few really know what the whole Bible is all about, what is it’s one story-line running throughout all of its pages, chapters, and books. My aim in this class is to cruise at 35,000 feet to look down on the Bible in both of its testaments to see this thread that joins it altogether. We’ll cover the Old Testament in the fall sessions, learning twelve “C’s” to help see that story. Then, following Christmas break, we’ll do the same in the New Testament, also utilizing twelve “C’s” to capture the continuing story.

 Public Speaking

Instructor: Pastor Kevin Sorenson
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: This course will be an introduction to middle schoolers on how to stand before peers, family, church members, or other groups without fear and speak. My aim is to help them learn confidence in public speaking using a variety of methods, styles of delivery, and subject matter. Each student will have several opportunities to give a one-minute biographical speech, building up to a much longer speech on a subject (either assigned or chosen by the student).

 Writing

Instructor: Jackie Gallus
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: We will be traveling to the land of Narnia this year as we learn to become more competent writers.  Utilizing the writing tools from the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) students will learn how to organize their thoughts and develop new tools for writing papers that people WANT to read.  The year begins with writing simple paragraphs and will progress to writing a five paragraph essay.  There will be grammar lessons, as well as optional reading assignments. 

Special Note: This course is designed to be a complete English course for your middle school student and will require daily work at home between classes. This class is suitable for students with two years or less of IEW experience. 

 Science: Botany

Instructor: Julie Von Vett
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: All of creation reveals a message from and about its Creator. God spoke to Job and said, “Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God”. We need to do the same—stand still and observe His creation. Today we tend to see many things but do not observe. By taking the time to observe nature our students will be trained to observe and see that nature is designed. This year we will develop our observation skills by examining plants.

Special Note: Middle school students will study alongside Mrs. Von Vett's 5th & 6th grade class. Additional reading will be required. More details to come.

 Literature

Instructor: Chelsie Ofsthun
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, {homeschoolers} lend me your ears.” “To be, or not to be: {in this FEET co-op class} that is the question.” Come and sample Shakespeare through his comedies, tragedies, sonnets, and poems. We will explore various scenes from some of Shakespeare’s tried and true works. Because after all, Shakespeare is still referenced in culture today, despite 400+ years passing by. So, until then… “parting is such sweet sorrow."

 Social Studies

Instructor: Chelsie Ofsthun
Class Length: 60 minutes / 15 meetings
Course Description: Take on social studies from a historical standpoint featuring The Great Depression Era. Sounds depressing, huh? Banks, stock market, The New Deal… blah, blah, blah. But also… life in the 30s brings to mind The Dust Bowl, Hitler entering the scene, a king abdicating his throne, Amelia Earhart vanishing. While we navigate this time period we will also touch on citizenship/government, economics, & geography through the lens of this era of United States History, while also peeking at what was going on in the rest of the world.

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